Number of people counted

Total population

151,179 people usually live in Hawke's Bay Region. This is an increase of 3,396 people, or 2.3 percent, since the 2006 Census.

Its population ranks 9th in size out of the 16 regions in New Zealand.

Hawke's Bay Region has 3.6 percent of New Zealand's population.

Population of Hawke's Bay Region and New Zealand

2013 Census

Sex

Hawke's Bay Region

New Zealand

Male

72,597

2,064,015

Female

78,582

2,178,033

Total people

151,179

4,242,051

Source: Statistics New Zealand

Māori population

34,662 Māori usually live in Hawke's Bay Region. This is an increase of 1,107 people, or 3.3 percent, since the 2006 Census.

Its Māori population ranks 8th in size out of the 16 regions in New Zealand.

5.8 percent of New Zealand's Māori population usually live in Hawke's Bay Region.

Māori population of Hawke's Bay Region and New Zealand

2013 Census

Sex

Hawke's Bay Region

New Zealand

Male

16,317

288,639

Female

18,342

309,966

Total people

34,662

598,602

Source: Statistics New Zealand

Note: Total population figures are for the census usually resident population count.

The Māori population is the Māori ethnic group usually resident population count. It includes those people who stated Māori as being either their only ethnic group or one of several ethnic groups.

Number of dwellings counted

There are 58,353 occupied dwellings and 5,925 unoccupied dwellings in Hawke's Bay Region.

For New Zealand as a whole, there are 1,570,695 occupied dwellings and 185,448 unoccupied dwellings.

There are 222 dwellings under construction in Hawke's Bay Region, and 9,756 under construction in New Zealand.

Dwellings in Hawke's Bay Region and New Zealand

2013 Census

Occupancy status

Hawke's Bay Region

New Zealand

Occupied

Private dwelling

57,996

1,561,956

Non-private dwelling

357

8,739

Total occupied dwellings

58,353

1,570,695

Unoccupied

5,925

185,448

Under construction

222

9,756

Total dwellings

64,500

1,765,896

Source: Statistics New Zealand

Note: This time series is irregular. Because the 2011 Census was cancelled after the Canterbury earthquake on 22 February 2011, the gap between this census and the last one is seven years. The change in the data between 2006 and 2013 may be greater than in the usual five-year gap between censuses. Be careful when comparing trends.

This data has been randomly rounded to protect confidentiality. Individual figures may not add up to totals, and values for the same data may vary in different text, tables, and graphs.